1992 Mapas y paisajes / Maps and landscapes / Kartor och landskap, Lunds Konsthall, Sweden

La construcción de un ¨yo¨ –  intersección de lo público y lo privado – el lugar y su representación / The construction of self – intersection of the public and the private – a site and it´s representation.

En las paredes docenas de citas y frases en cinco lenguas /  Dozens of phrases and quotes in five languages written on the walls.

Mapas y Paisajes / Maps and Landscapes / Kartor och Landskap, Lunds Konsthall, Sweden

Muros pintados a mano con tierra / Walls painted by hand with soil

La sala de estar y el museo / The living room and the museum

Vitrinas y colecciones / Vitrines and collections

Vitrinas y colecciones / Vitrines and collections

Vitrinas y colecciones / Vitrines and collections

En las paredes docenas de citas y frases en cinco lenguas /  Dozens of phrases and quotes written on the walls.

“ Seeing this way, the self is not a perceived object, but a mental object, created by an organizing operation performed on a stream of impressions which in themselves lack such organization.”

“ Chinese texts use ‘ as long as it takes to eat a bowl of rice’ as a time unit. Vedic texts use ‘as long as it takes to milk a cow’.”

“ Those who belive they can do something and those who belive they can’t are both right.”

“ Poverty is not an intrinsic capacity of the means. It is a relationship between the means and the ends.”

“ In a sense, to stand in two places is to stand both in presence and in representation. For representations are not simply less real than what they represent; they are also real in that ‘representations are social facts’. They are not, in other words, just re-presences, but presences. They are part of ourselves.”

“ Ethnography renders the Other’s identity to ourselves and, via the conditions in which it is executed, back to the Other. By speaking of him, or for him, we ultimately force him to speak through our categories.”

“The self can never reach the other and can never do without it.”
“ It is not merely that the other is a mystery to the self; it is that the other is a mystery of the self.”

“ If it whishes to escape the other, the self can only sink into it, fusing with it so neither self nor other remains to be seen. If it whishes to absorb the other into itself and enrich itself through otherness, the self, drawn out of its limits, can only force the other into new forms of otherness.”

“ it is a curatorial truism that, nearly anything in a vitrine looks good enogh to hold one’s gaze for a minute or two.”

“ The hegemonic is always Me, while we are the Other.”

“ I forgot what I was going to say.”

“ Evolutionism is the theoretical space of modern industrial civilization.”

“ It seems axiomatic that it is not possible to exhibit objects without putting a construction upon them.”

“ … a space between object and label: a space in which the third agent, the viewer, establishes contact between the first and the second agents, the maker and the exhibitor.”